ziggurat
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Olympia, his elusive love and sporadic muse, flits in and out of his life as she works her way up the tiers of the art world’s ziggurat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Sotheby’s has moved into Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist landmark that looks like an inverted ziggurat and once famously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
“There’s also influence from Egypt, from Mesopotamia’s ziggurat architecture, from Aztec architecture and from World War II bunkers, which is the first thing Denis showed me,” Vermette says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
"They're up early. C'mon, we need to get to the ziggurat."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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